When trauma hits close, everyone feels it by Edie Jones All of us in Central Oregon have felt the impact of the terrible shooting that took place at the Silver Rail Elementary School. When trauma hits ...

Becky Drury, the Silver Rail Elementary School educational assistant who suffered injuries in the October 15 shooting, is opening up about her memories of that fateful afternoon. Drury was one of two ...

This column is usually about real estate. This week, it isn’t. Like everyone in Bend, we have been heartbroken since learning of the tragic event at Silver Rail Elementary School. We don’t have the ...

The mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School happened less than a week from the date of this writing. Amid the ...

Authorities have identified Griffin J. John II as the suspect in the Oct. 15 shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School that ...

We don’t fault anyone who harbors doubt, or even downright disdain about the state of things at the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office. A culture of retaliation and dishonesty has pervaded the office ...

A mother’s eyes welled up as she watched her young daughter pet a golden retriever outside of the Bend Central Library Friday ...

Skyler Laughlin’s daughter’s desk sits next to a window near the front of the school at Lava Ridge Elementary in northeast Bend. When he toured the classroom earlier this year, he was excited about ...

High Desert Chamber Music’s 2026-27 season, presented by Washington Trust Bank and Lynch Murphy McLane LLP, continues in ...

The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs will honor generations of Oregon veterans and their service to our nation during ...

It feels reductive to spend this space writing about movies after the nightmare that children, teachers and their families went through last week at Silver Rail Elementary here in Bend. So then I ...

National news outlets, including The New York Times, have identified the Silver Rail Elementary School shooter’s mother as ...